heating
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- noun
- /ˈhiːtɪŋ/
- The average house built since 1974 uses only 75 percent as much heating fuel as older houses.
- a heating system
- space heating
- electric heating
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Watch on YouTubeYeah, with single colours and probably horrible heating or choky air con.
- Yeah, with single colours and probably horrible heating or choky air con.
- That's oil, gas and coal, which we currently use quite a lot for heating and cooking.
- Well, people care a lot more about their experience using heating than how it's delivered.
- So firstly, there was discussion about the costs of hydrogen heating versus heat pump heating.
- It also eliminates the concern of is AC on, is heating on or is neither on.
Examples
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The landlord promised to fix the heating before winter arrived.
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Have you hired someone to get you a decent heating system, or are you still getting estimates?
Fiction book (1998) -
- What? - It's the heating system.
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How many times have I told you not to play on the floor till the heating gets fixed?
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Grandma says, can you turn up the heating?
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Millions will spend Christmas in sub zero temperatures without heating, electricity or hot water.
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We still don't have heating and we need a new boiler.
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Central heating!
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A gust of hot air from the heating system puffed around Mary Frances.
Fiction book (1993) -
There's a full basement where we have an ultramodern central heating furnace with copper pipes, an oil burner.
Synonyms
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A machine that makes a room or water warm
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4.1
A closed chamber that makes very high heat for melting metal, burning waste or heating buildings
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The system that gives warmth to a building
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A machine that heats and keeps water, food, or a room hot
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2.8
A system that warms a building by moving hot air or water
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2.5
A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
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2.1
A machine that uses electricity to make a room or small space warm
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2.5
A machine that burns gas to make a room warm
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Heat from burning natural gas to warm a building
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A system that heats a building by sending steam to radiators
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A system in a building that makes warm air and sends it to rooms
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A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth
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5.1
A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings
Antonyms
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System that controls temperature and air movement inside buildings to keep people comfortable
Compounds
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A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
- Specialized
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3.4
A metal part inside a kettle, oven, or heater that gets hot to make things warm
- Specialized
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A system that makes hot vapor in a heater to warm rooms through pipes and radiators
- Specialized
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A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth
- Specialized
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6.1
To heat metal by making electric currents inside it using magnetic fields
- Specialized
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5.1
A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings
- Specialized
Heating an insulating material with a high-frequency electric field that makes molecules move and heat up
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Etymology
The word heating comes from the simple word heat ('hot') plus the ending -ing, which shows an action or a system. So, heating is the action or system that makes a building or room warm.